Django deployment tools

Question

I'm looking for some tool (or set of tools) that could help me automate deploying Django projects with all required dependencies.

I googled for some solutions but I am curious what are your favorite ones.

Answer 1

I'll second meder's suggestion: user virtualenv + pip. These will give isolated environments that can be mantained and replicated easily.

Once you got that running, you have two choices:

• fabric: Is great for simpler setups. You can script many deploy situations (code checkout, multiple servers, etc). Fabric makes little assumptions on what and how you are deploying, so it's pretty flexible.
• Zope's buildout : is more complex and harder to setup, but can do pretty much any deploy scenario you throw at it.

Best regards

Answer 2

You can also have a look at silver-lining. It's a bit early-on, but seems okay, as long as you are doing everything the same way in your project.

Answer 3

Are you looking for something like pip requirements?

http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2009/05/notes-using-pip-and-virtualenv-django/